Jacob Silverman

Talk to me about the afterlife of dead infra.

For my reporting I'm interested in talking to people who know about old telecom wiring still hanging between wooden utility poles, sometimes unused, and how it's being stolen for scrap. Infrastructure enthusiasts, linemen, rural cops, telecoms scholars: my email is jsilverman@icij.org.

Judge Orders Greg Abbott to Hand Over His Communications With Elon Musk (Michelle Del Rey/The Washington Sun) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

How can Anthropic be allowed to go public with all these crazy disclosures?! At the SEC we used to joke you can register a Ponzi scheme as long as you disclose it's a Ponzi scheme and that's barely hyperbole. Registering a security is just about full disclosure. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Searchable map of hundreds of thousands of Flock cameras. Data may not be current. proton.me/flock-camera...

Skip the Sunday morning political shows. Forget the 15 articles you’ve saved. Instead, spend 76 minutes understanding how Trump’s World Liberty Financial actually works. The foreign money, the private dollar, the companies, the bank, & who’s getting paid. One year of investigation. One film.

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

tbh I think it’s just film economics (it’s also still in like 50 or so theaters) bsky.app/profile/labu...

It seems notable that the distributor for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary was just bought by a Pierre Omidyar-owned company that also backs the streaming service run by Musk's sister. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Great book launch party in New York on Tuesday. Big thanks to everyone who came out, and @lifewinning.com for putting it all together. She even got me a data center cake! Get your copy of HYPERSCALE today. More info at hyperscalebook.com

I was glad to have a wide ranging conversation with Rose Aguilar and some Bay Area callers about American oligarchy. www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

Someone should write about the leading tech/corporate fraud journalist who has a $3m book deal riding on what most of his peers think is a misconceived premise at best.

Helen Holmes writes about Elizabeth Holmes (no relation) and fraudster drag www.gq.com/story/elizab...

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New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

“The borrowing let Ellison keep his stock and avoid locking in taxable gains, and highlighted how billionaires often employ a strategy called ‘buy, borrow and die’ to retain their wealth without selling assets.”

Does anyone know anything about Larry Ellison's wife besides that she's a Michigan football booster?

I’ll be hitting a lot of cities across the United States, Canada, and Europe over the next two months. Some of them are listed on my website, but make sure to check back as I add more — particularly for Europe in December. I hope to see you there! parismarx.com/speaking/

🚨 TODAY’S THE DAY 📚 After years of work, my new book HYPERSCALE is finally on bookshelves! It chronicles the data center boom just as the backlash is reaching a fever pitch. Get your copy today: hyperscalebook.com

Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member (Dan Mangan/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Dangers of crypto and meme asset investing. I cite work from @benmckenzie.bsky.social, @dianebenscoter.bsky.social, @christemplefilm.bsky.social, @jacobsilverman.com, @zekefaux.bsky.social, @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social youtu.be/xP0_eBZDLXc

Periodically I think about this and what it might mean in practice. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

I support the bird store in the Kelly Clarkson beef but "Dragons Love Tacos" is a whack book. Two things can be true at once. I'm always saying this.

For the uninitiated, the four-stop line is the oldest continuously operating section of the NYC Subway system, and among the most storied in all of Gotham www.nydailynews.com/2024/08/11/f...

Covert poets

Report: Israeli ad-tech firm enables spyware targeting of at least 45 Al Jazeera devices cpj.org?p=628774

Tether paid Bo Hines’ company while he was at White House, WSJ protos.com/tether-paid-...

Please support The Kyra Fund — in honor of the late Kyra Samson — in our fight against glioblastoma 🐤👀 ptfo.betterworld.org/auctions/kyr...

Liberal England: Crash! (1971): An experimental television film with J.G. Ballard and Gabrielle Drake

There's a time and a place for a Hedgehog